Its pretty rare that a band can have ONE album that you can listen to all the way through without feeling the need to skip tracks. All three Shins albums are like this. I like how they went for a more upbeat crisp sound for the second album and then for the third one went a little more melodic and dreary to return to the form of the first album. I don't think there is a band to compare to them out there. If you don't start the second album and hear that guitar riff go into the "Whoo!" and not start feeling your whole body get into Kissing the Lipless then you probably need to take anti-depressants or something. A wonderful band, that probably not enough praise is put upon.
In fact New Slang is on my 25 songs of the modern rock era you must hear before you die list. And I am fortunate enough to have not heard of them by Watching Garden State, which would have just been a vomitous occasion.
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